HP has decided to follow in the footsteps of Dell and Toshiba laptop and launch a convertible with multitouch technology, similar to the one Apple has had the merit, with iPhone, to push the mass market. The handset just launched by HP TouchSmart is the TX2, a 12-inch model that can be used as a regular notebook or, if necessary, as a tablet PC.

uhuhLa technology multitouch used by TX2 is the same introduced last year by HP with the desktop all-in-one TouchSmart PC, and allows you to interact with the screen using two fingers at once: this feature can be exploited, for example, to zoom in and rotate photos or to browse the contents of the windows.

It should be stressed that the multitouch is supported solely from the MediaSmart: The standard interface of Windows Vista, the operating system pre-installed on HP laptop, can be controlled through a single finger or stylus. Not lacking, however, support the gesture, which can run programs or actions by drawing short signs on the screen: designing an “S” horizontally For example, you can launch MediaSmart.
The convertible HP weighs something more than 2 kilograms and has a 12.1-inch display WXGA and a dual-core processor for AMD. It can be equipped with a hard disk capacity with 5400 RPM of between 160 and 500 GB and a quantity of RAM up to 8 GB. Its price starts from 1150 U.S. dollars.

The TX2 is the direct rival of the Dell Latitude XT and the Toshiba Portege M700, also equipped with multitouch technology, design and convertible 12.1-inch display. Of these two systems, launched at the end of last year